The healthcare provider that owns and operates Kadlec Regional Medical Center has laid off workers at four of its facilities outside the Mid-Columbia area ostensibly due to several financial pressures.
Central Washington is home to one of the top-rated hospitals in the state as well as several of the lowest, according to data recently released by the federal agency responsible for administering Medicare and Medicaid.
More than 100 local governments in Washington are now eligible to claim their share of $122.2 million in settlements with Purdue Pharma and eight generic opioid manufacturers, the Washington state attorney general’s office said July 28.
A Richland-based international humanitarian organization that has provided orthopedic surgery and prosthetics to hundreds of thousands across the globe over the past 26 years has named a new leader.
As federal Medicaid cuts loom, consumer advocates are celebrating Washington’s new bill limiting hospital prices for state and public school employees.
A new dental facility will open in Kennewick next year to provide care and training to future dentists, thanks to a partnership between Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic and Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences.
The so-called “big, beautiful bill” is expected to blow a multibillion-dollar hole into the state’s budget, and kick hundreds of thousands of residents off their insurance if they don’t prove they meet new requirements.
